Hi Simon, Simon Oosthoek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm wondering how the support for the SIS 182 controller is doing, I > noticed they have a GPL driver on their website for kernel 2.6.10, > which is not a drop in replacement for sata_sis.c in 2.6.12.5, I > haven't tried compiling it as an add-on module outside the tree, > though... I tried the sources from the SiS website (that seem to add more details than my simple patch that just adds the device ID) as a drop in for the Fedora installation kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4, but the kernel build process ran into an error at the sata_sis module. The problem is that the source from SiS has a conditional code that depends on the definition of a symbol "KERN_2_6_10" which is defined by their "outside build makefile", but not in the standard kernel build process. I added a #define KERN_2_6_10 to the source and then it compiled also inside the kernel build process. > Adding the 0x182 identifier to the 180 driver does compile (duh!), but > I haven't tried it on hardware. Working at a PC manufacturer I have access to hardware and I tried out a lot and didn't run into any problem so far. > As a temporary measure, there was a patch posted to this list [1] a > while ago, would it be a good idea to include this while full support > is being worked on? Seeing that the source from the SiS website is much more going into the details than my simple adding of the device ID (of course SiS has hopefully a much deeper knowledge of their hardware than I have ;-) I would rather go for integrating the SiS source in the current kernel. And this problem is quite urgent since its a sort of "showstopper" for brandnew hardware. We have a query from an university that wants to buy 7000 PCs with that hardware in the next 4 years, but until yesterday they were unable to install Fedora Core 4 on the machine since the installer doesn't see any hard disks. I succeeded to make a simple quick&dirty driver disk to get Linux at least installed on the hard disk. But the problem also applies for every other Linux distribution, so we urgently need to get support for that device in the mainstream kernel hoping that it will be inherited to the installation kernels of the distributions soon. Generally SATA is replacing parallel ATA in the new PC platforms and we already got anouncements that future platforms will come with SATA only. So can't emphasize enought that SATA support is absolutely important for Linux on the desktop. If there is something I can do to help or contribute let me know. Best regards Rainer -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Business Clients Fujitsu Siemens Computers VP BC E SW OS Phone: +49-821-804-3321 Fax: +49-821-804-2131 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
